A lot of people are upset that Trump had a lunch meeting with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago after all that Zuckerbucks had done to cause trouble in the 2020 election and censor people politically on his Facebook platform. After all, he was one of the most evil people from the past, and here he was, groveling in front of Trump, looking to be a part of the future. And everyone’s first instinct is that he should be in jail, perhaps worse. My first reaction was that I would never sit down with an enemy like that. I tend to hold grudges forever, and I get all the people who do me wrong back for things they’ve done to me or tried to do to me, even if it takes decades. I never get over anything. Most people at least think that way, even if, in reality, they tend to be more forgiving. But then I was reminded that it was just this past week that I was called a Velvet Hammer by a friend of mine. I tend to tell people to “go to Hell,” where they thank me for the opportunity by the time I’m done with them. That is something that I have learned to do over time, and I think it comes with any successful experience when it comes to people. You have to really open up the toolbox of communication to deal with a variety of people who all want different things. My first reaction to being called a Velvet Hammer was that this person was telling me my way of fighting with people was like a woman, which is one of those woke things that we’re not even supposed to consider these days. But women often don’t fight directly about anything and seldom ever say what they mean. They might deal with another woman thinking, “You dumb bitch, you’re trying to steal my husband,” when in reality, they say, “We should get a latte at Starbucks sometime.” Conversely, men would deal with conflict much differently; one moment, they might want to fight in the parking lot, and the next, they are the best of friends sharing eternal bonding. Men get over things fast, by biological necessity. But in the business world, with men and women being thrown together like no other time in history, where those elements have to be dealt with in some way, successful people must expand their communication ability to be effective.

That’s something I have learned over time, which is to develop many ways to communicate with many tools in the toolbox rather than a hammer and chisel to get an idea across to people resistant to it. In many cases, there are legal parameters that you always have to be aware of, so you can’t say things to people that they could then legally use against you or that culturally violate basic assumptions about work that have been shaped by radical leftist politics and a media culture that leans dramatically to Marxism. You might feel very strongly about something, but you can’t express it to people who think very differently about it because they don’t have the right kind of mind even to hear what you are saying. So I have had to learn to express myself to the limits of the people around me, which is why that Velvet Hammer designation came my way because the situation was very delicate, and I did have to tell people to go to Hell while at the same time having them thank me for the experience.
And naturally, Trump, being at the top of the business world for many years, has had to learn this Velvet Hammer approach. It is satisfying to tell people what you think of them, just as it is rewarding to punch someone in the face when they’ve done you wrong. But the playground politics doesn’t translate well into the business world. Maybe it should; perhaps the world would be better off if people always said what they meant about everything. But that’s not how humans are wired; there are always subtleties with people, and often, it’s best to keep your enemies close so you can see how they will play their cards. Life is much more like poker, where the other players are constantly lying to you, than a religious confessional, and to have a relationship with them, which is often necessary, the best way to navigate is through communication methods that are beyond their innate experiences learned from childhood on conflict resolution. You can still hit them over the head with a hammer, but a little velvet on it helps delay the realization about what you are doing until they’ve given you what you want, and they don’t realize what you are doing to them until it’s too late. Trump has mastered this technique without question, and that’s what he has been doing with Mark Zuckerberg. Can he use the dumb kid to good effect, trading jail for reform on his deep past with working with the three-lettered intelligence agencies to bring America down from within? While people might instinctively want to see Zuckerberg hang, Trump, the intelligent business guy, wonders if there is some way he can profit from the situation Zuckerberg finds himself in, which is the best way to make a good deal for yourself.
And when you are a winner in your engagements, you can afford to use a Velvet Hammer rather than desperately fighting for your rights to exist. Having your enemies come to you and grovel at your feet is the best reward. Zuckerberg is trying to survive in a world he went all in on destroying, and now he has to wake up each day trying to appeal to the people he most hurt. And what can be learned from his network if he’s allowed to share a bit in that world? After all, that’s what Mika and Joe Scarborough did from The Morning Joe Show on MSNBC was the same thing Zuckerberg did, and that was to see Trump and grovel in front of him since he had won the election and the right to shape the world from the Executive Branch. Defeated foes have been boot-licking and groveling like this for thousands of years. But as the one having their boots licked, the way to get them working in your direction is with a velvet hammer. Not a sledgehammer that crushes them out of existence. You want to know what people are up to because they seldom reveal it deliberately. If you want to work with lots of different people who all have other motives, and you want to win them over to your way of thinking, then you have to find a way to get them under control and pointed in the right direction in ways that make it look profitable for them. In Zuckerberg’s situation, Trump has a full checkmate on him, and everyone knows it. There is only one path for Zuckerberg and Trump to control it. So when a business guy gets that kind of leverage over someone, there is a lot more profit for Trump in utilizing it to proper effect than in having the satisfaction of Zuckerberg being hit over the head and having his soul crushed. Because, at that point, he’s just another useless carcass. However, making him an asset is why President Trump is rich. He learned how to use the Velvet Hammer, and he does so often.
Rich Hoffman

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